An exclusive tour of a famous English historic housefeatured in period dramas including Bridgerton and Brideshead Revisitedset on acres of beautiful parkland and gardens.The iconic architectural marvel Castle Howard is the epitome of...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 28-Aug-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: The British Academy, ISBN-13: 9781836244745)
In the thirty-five years since the publication of David Cannadines Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy (1990) the power of Britains landed elite declined, but they remain far from extinct....Daugiau...
Country houses may be triumphs of architecture, fine and decorative art, and landscape design, but they are also about the history and transmission of ideas. In varying degrees their occupants thought, conversed, read, and responded to their milieu t...Daugiau...
This volume of essays explores a range of country house collections in Ireland, the UK, the US, and Europe. It examines how collections were built up over time, how they were dispersed or destroyed, and how they have been interpreted and valued....Daugiau...
Sir Shane Leslie once wrote that ‘Country life was entirely organized to give nobility and gentry and demi-gentry a good time.’Throughout Ireland and Britain the country house was a centre of hospitality, entertainment and leisure, with t...Daugiau...
Demonstrating the role of women in the appearance and running of family estates, this volume brings together 15 essays on the lives and functions of women in country houses in Ireland and Britain from the 17th to the 20th centuries, including hou...Daugiau...
Historians and other scholars from the UK and Australia present 16 essays that draw on landed family and estate papers from the UK and Ireland to examine the experiences of families in country houses during World War I. They discuss Robert Heard,...Daugiau...
Now available in paperback, this collection of essays emanates from the Annual Historic Houses of Ireland Conference held at National University of Ireland, Maynooth, which provides focus and recognition for new scholarship and other developments in...Daugiau...
In 1841, on stepping down as Irelands chief secretary, George Howard, Lord Morpeth, received a grand farewell testimonial from the people of Ireland. This took the form of 200,000 signatures on sheets of paper wrapped around a gigantic bobbin. When...Daugiau...
Drawn from the Annual Historic Houses of Ireland Conference sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates at the University of Ireland, Maynooth, this collection of essays on the history of Irish country houses showcases...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
In keeping with the grandeur of the magnificent house, the grounds at Castle Howard are designed on a heroic scale. First laid out in the early years of the 18th century, the 1,000 acres of gardens are dotted with statues, lakes, and fountains,...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
This examination of Vanbrughs work as a landscape designer also dicusses other contemporary architects, designers, botanical collectors and illustrators such as Hawksmoor, Wren, Archer and Lord Burlington, and provides a survey of all the significa...Daugiau...
